The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-06-29
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.

Willow furniture can be cleaned by us
ing salt and water. Apply with a nail
brush, scrub well and dry thoroughly.
Japanned trays can be polished with
little powdered whiting or dry flour, all
of it being rubbed off with soft
cloth.
Rugs should be lightly shaken every
day if they are small, and brushed with
a small broom daily when they are too
large to be frequently shaken.
Never pour hot water into a glass un-
less it contains a spoon; this will serve
as a conductor for the heat of the water
and lessen the risk of breakage.
Ragmuf1ins: Make dough as for bis
cult, roll half an inch thick, spread with
butter, sugar, cinnamon; roll up and cut
off from the end the size of biscuit; bake
quickly.
Mirrors can be polished with q soft
cloth wet with few drops of ammonia.
The sun should not be allowed to fall on
mirrors, because its rays affect the metallic
coating on the glass.
How to beat cake: Beat from the bot
tom of the mixing bowl with a wooden
spoon, bringing it up full and high with
each stroke, and as soon as the ingredi
ents are fairly and smoothly mixed stop
beating, or your cake will be tough.
To iron table cloths without creasing
them, roll them upon long curtain roll
er as fast as they are ironed dry, begin
ming at one end. A Canton flannel cloth
under the linen one makes the table cloth
look well, and saves spots upon the
table.
Snow-drops: One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, whites of five eggs, one
small cup of milk, three full cups of pre-
pared flour; flavor with vanilla and nut
meg. Bake in small round tins. Those
in the shape of futed shells are very
pretty.
Ginger Snaps: Two cups of molasses,
one-cup of sugar, one and one-half cups
of melted lard, two-thirds of a cup of
cold water, two teaspoonfuls of salaratus,
two teaspoonfuls of ginger, and one of
salt, and flour enough to roll thin. Bake
in quick oven.
Molasses Cookies: One cup butter two
cups molasses, one teaspoonful cloves,
one tablespoonful ginger sufficient -four
to make stiff batter, not dough- Mold
with the hands into small cakes and bake
in steady rather than quick oven, as
they are apt to burn.
When to water house plants If dust
can be worked up with the finger the
plant needs water. Tap the pot with the
knuckles. If it has sharp, hollow sound
or ring, the earth is dry. The weight of
the pot also shows whether the plant re-
quires water, wet soil, of course being
much heavier than dry.
How to make good 0melet Beat the
yelks and the whites of the eggs scpar
ately m L tablespoonful of butter in
teacup Of warm milk, to which add
e adually tablespoonful of -four, a lit.
tie salt and pepper; add the yelks of the
eggs, and then add the whites. Bake
Immediately in a fiat pan creased with
butter.
In furnishing houses, pictures fol
adorning the walls should not be forgot.
ten. There is such variety of beautiful
engravings and etchings that are within
the reach of all, and the framing of them
costs such trihe, it is a crying shame
that the walls of so many of our homes
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chrome variety or not at all.
Milk bread: 1t is now recommended
that milk shall be used in making bread.
A pint of it in the ordinary loaf, instead
of water, adds some solid nutriment to
the meal, and is a great improvement.
Milk bread does not keep fresh as long
as water bread, but it is delicious when
fresh, and perhaps all the more whole
some for drying quickly.
Granulated wheat gems: Stir two and
one-half cups of fine granulated wheat
slowly into a liquid formed of one cup of
water aud one cup of milk, seasoned with
a saltspoonful of salt; then beat rapidly
until the arm is weary, and fill very hot
iron gem pans well buttered, giving the
batter a beating while filling, and bake
Immediately in hot oven.
Curried eggs: Boil three eggs twenty
minutes, then remove the shells and cut
into slices. Fry bit of onion in little
butter and add a tablespoonful of corn
starch mixed with a saltspoonful of curry
powder; pour on slowly three quarters of
IA cup of milk, seasoning with salt and
butter to taste, and simmer until the
onion is soft. Add the eggs and serve
when they are thoroughly heated.
Corn starch cake: One cup of butter
worked to a cream with two cups of
sugar; one cup of milk in which is dis
solved one teaspoonful of soda two cups
of -four in which is sifted two teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar; the whites only,
of six eggs, beaten to a stiff froth. Mix
all these ingredients WELL then add one
cup of corn starch. Beat well. Bake in
a moderate oven. viii make one large
loaf